List of librarians

A-E

Ada Adler

Mary Eileen Ahern

Lester Asheim

Sarah B. Askew - pioneered the establishment of county libraries in the United States

Basil Atkinson

Derek Austin

Henriette Avram - MARC standards developer

Antoine Alexandre Barbier

John Davis Barnett - Canada

John J. Beckley - first Librarian of Congress; a politician

Pura Belpré - librarian and author

Sanford Berman

Bob Berring - law librarian

John Carlo Bertot - library educator, researcher, editor of The Library Quarterly

Anastasius Bibliothecarius

James H. Billington - 13th librarian of Congress; historian

Thomas Bodley - founder of the Bodleian Library; English diplomat; 1545-1613

Arna Bontemps - author, bibliographer, and Fisk University librarian

Daniel J. Boorstin - 12th Librarian of Congress; historian

Virginia Boucher - longtime leader in both the ALA and the International Federation of Library Associations; author of library science books

Wallace Breem - novelist and law librarian

Suzanne Briet

Lee Pierce Butler

Andrew Carnegie - Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist who financed thousands of libraries around the world

Leon Carnovsky

Daniel J. Caron

Mary L. Chute - New Jersey State Librarian

Ingrid Carlsson - wife of Ingvar Carlsson

Amalia Kahana-Carmon

Mayme Agnew Clayton

Cecilia Cleve (d. 1819), Swedish pioneer librarian

Morris L. Cohen - attorney, law librarian and professor of law at the University at Buffalo, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Law School and Yale Law School

Marjorie Cotton - first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia

Andrea Crestadoro

Charles Ammi Cutter

John Cotton Dana (1856-1931)

Robert Darnton

Joan Davis - librarian of Elisabeth Morrow School Library, mother of Hope Davis

Lorcan Dempsey

Melvil Dewey

William S. Dix

Miriam Dudley

Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko

Linda Eastman

Margaret A. Edwards

El Sayed Mahmoud El Sheniti - seminal figure in professional librarianship in Egypt

Theresa Elmendorf

Miriam Eshkol

Luther H. Evans - 10th Librarian of Congress

Woody Evans

Oliver Everett

F-M

Johann Albert Fabricius - bibliographer

Mary Cutler Fairchild - pioneer library educator

David Ferriero, former M.I.T librarian and current Archivist of the United States

Herman H. Fussler

Elizabeth Futas - director of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

Mary Virginia Gaver

Helen Thornton Geer - ALA Headquarters librarian, author, consultant, and professor

Johann Matthias Gesner - bibliographer

Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr. - Canadian librarian

Eliza Atkins Gleason - first African American to receive doctorate of Library Science

Frederick R. Goff - incunabula scholar

Michael Gorman

Jan Gruter - scholar

Camilla Gryski

Helen E. Haines

Peter Havard-Williams - librarian educator

Carla Hayden - Public librarian, former ALA President, 14th Librarian of Congress

Frances E. Henne

Wolfgang Herrmann - librarian; member of Nazi Purification Committee

Caroline Hewins

Susan Hildreth - former California State librarian

Ted Hines

Judith Hoffberg - art librarian

Zoia Horn - American librarian jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom

Jean Blackwell Hutson - chief of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Thomas James

Anne Jarvis

Thomas Jefferson - sold his library to the Library of Congress

Charles Coffin Jewett

Carleton B. Joeckel

Virginia Lacy Jones - major figure in the integration of public and academic libraries

E.J. Josey

Muhammad Siddiq Khan

Mohammad Khatami - former President of Iran; previously Head of National Library of Iran

Frederick Kilgour

Judith Krug - forty-year leader of the American Library Association's Office of Intellelectual Freedom

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya - wife of Lenin

Philip Larkin

Margaret Leiteritz - painter who based her work of scientific items which she knew as a librarian

Anne Grodzins Lipow - founder of Library Solutions Institute and Press

Seymour Lubetzky

Roderick Samson Mabomba - Malawian librarian

Archibald MacLeish - 9th Librarian of Congress; Pulitzer Prize poet

Patrick Magruder - 2nd Librarian of Congress; politician

Allie Beth Martin

Harry S. Martin - former Head Librarian, Harvard Law Library

Kathleen de la Peña McCook - Library scholar, Public librarian, Free speech advocate, and Author

John Silva Meehan - 4th Librarian of Congress

Bharat Mehra

Florence Milnes - first BBC librarian

August Molinier - French historian

Eric Moon - editor of Library Journal

Anne Carroll Moore - pioneering children's librarian

Everett T. Moore - freedom of information

Isadore Gilbert Mudge - edited Guide to Resource Works

L. Quincy Mumford - 11th Librarian of Congress

Ludovico Antonio Muratori - Italian librarian, archivist and historian

N-Z

Gerhard Brandt Naeseth - Norwegian-American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library in Madison, Wisconsin

Makoto Nagao - 19th Director of National Diet Library of Japan; computer scientist specializing in digital library

Bonnie Nardi - information science

Gabriel Naudé

Howard Nixon

Margaret Cross Norton

Paul Otlet

John Henry Pyle Pafford

Antonio Panizzi - chief librarian of the British Museum library

Ingrid Parent - librarian at the University of British Columbia

Charles V. Park - librarian at Central Michigan University

Nancy Pearl - librarian and author

Mary Wright Plummer

Effie Louise Power

Herbert Putnam - 8th Librarian of Congress

S.R. Ranganathan - librarian and mathematician from India, known for his five laws of library science and the development of the colon classification

Fremont Rider

Jane, Lady Roberts

Frances Clarke Sayers

Louis A. Schultheiss

Marvin H. Scilken

Margaret Scoggin - young adult librarian

Marianne Scott

Ralph R. Shaw

Jesse Shera

Louis Shores

Regina Smith - librarian at Jenkins Law Library, a membership library in Philadelphia

Frances Lander Spain (1903-1999) - American Library Association President 1960-61

Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 6th Librarian of Congress

John G. Stephenson - 5th Librarian of Congress

Suetonius - Roman historian and archivist

Peggy Sullivan

Don R. Swanson

Friedrich Sylburg - 16th-century German scholar

Louis Timothee - first American librarian

Arnulfo Trejo - U.S. Hispanic-American librarian

Gottfried van Swieten - Austrian Imperial librarian 1777-1803; introduced first card catalog

Eva Verona

Brian Campbell Vickery

Douglas Waples

George Watterston - 3rd Librarian of Congress

Jessamyn West

John Wilkin - digital library management researcher

Ian E. Wilson

Louis Round Wilson

Patrick Wilson

Justin Winsor - Harvard University librarian

Mary Elizabeth Wood - promoted Western librarianship practices and programs in China

Lawrence C. Wroth - librarian at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

Ella Gaines Yates

Victor Yngve

John Russell Young - 7th Librarian of Congress; journalist

Zenodotus - first superintendent of Library of Alexandria; scholar of the 3rd century BC

Shen Zhurong - father of library science in China

One-time librarians noted for other accomplishments

Reinaldo Arenas - Cuban author

Ben Barkow

Roland Barthes - French writer and philosopher

Georges Bataille - French writer

Ludwig Bechstein - German author

Thomas Berger - American novelist

Hector Berlioz - French composer; librarian, Paris Conservatoire

Arna Bontemps - French artist

Jorge Luis Borges - author and poet

John Braine - British novelist

Laura Bush

Callimachus - poet

Roch Carrier - novelist

Lewis Carroll - author

Giacomo Casanova

Isaac Casaubon

Cassiodorus

Beverly Cleary - novelist

Joanna Cole - children's book author and librarian

Ina Coolbrith - poet and librarian

Frank Coombs - U.S. politician; State Librarian of California, 1898-1899

Gratia Countryman - Minneapolis librarian

Pierre François le Courayer - 18th-century theologian

Harinath De - linguist

John Dee - Renaissance magician

Hal Draper

Marcel Duchamp

Will Durant - historian

Eratosthenes

Frank Ferko - composer

Benjamin Franklin

Stephen Gaselee - diplomat

Edmund Gosse

Ed Greenwood - author

Francis Hayman - English artist

Elizabeth Heaps

Edward Singleton Holden - U.S. astronomer

J. Edgar Hoover - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

David Hume - philosopher

Hypatia (c. 350–370 – March 415)

Mohammad Khatami - Iranian president and scholar

Annette Curtis Klause - author of children's books

Stanley Kunitz - former United States Poet Laureate; editor of Wilson Library Bulletin, 1927-1943

Lao Tsu

Madeleine L'Engle - 20th-century novelist

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz - mathematician and philosopher

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - German playwright and poet

Wilhelm Lexis - German economist

Li Dazhao - Chinese revolutionary politician

Audre Lorde - 20th-century US poet and activist

Archibald MacLeish - author; Librarian of Congress, 1939-1944

Mao Zedong - Chinese revolutionary politician

Alan Noel Latimer Munby - English author

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson - author and librarian

Andre Norton - science-fiction author

Walter A. O'Brien - U.S. politician; commissioned original version of the song "Charlie on the M.T.A."

Christopher Okigbo - Nigerian poet

Major Owens - U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY)

Andrew K. Pace - author

Coventry Patmore - 19th-century UK poet

Kit Pearson - Canadian writer; winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English language children's literature

Benjamin Peirce - logician

Per Petterson - Norwegian author

Charles Pickering

Marcel Proust - French author

Philip Pullman - fantasy novelist

Ken Roberts author

Greg Dean Schmitz - online film journalist

Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves - granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sima Qian - Chinese historian

Lynne Stewart - American lawyer

June Tabor - British singer

Elizabeth Taylor

Edward J. Thomas - scholar of Buddhism

Anne Tyler - novelist

Angus Wilson - novelist